Le meraviglie del possibile: Antologia della Fantascienza
9 best books like Le meraviglie del possibile: Antologia della Fantascienza (Carlo Fruttero): Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, The Maid's Version, Marcovaldo, La condanna del sangue: La primavera del commissario Ricciardi, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, The Florios of Sicily, Addio fantasmi, La straniera, L'Œil du loup
Author | Ann VanderMeer |
ISBN | 1629630357 |
Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the...
Author | Daniel Woodrell |
ISBN | 0316205850 |
Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters...
Author | Italo Calvino |
ISBN | 0156572044 |
Calvino has been on my radar for a long time, and I think I made a good choice in picking Marcovaldo for a first try. This is a small book, but it has a big heart. The stories are set in the poverty ridden early 1950's and follow up to the relative abundance of the 1960's. The immediate connections that spring...
Author | Maurizio de Giovanni |
La seconda avventura del commissario Ricciardi, l'uomo che possiede il dono (o la condanna) di sentire le ultime parole pronunciate da chi muore di morte violenta, quello che lui chiama "il Fatto".
Napoli, aprile 1931. Il vento di primavera si annuncia nella notte di una giornata fredda e cupa...
Author | Michel Onfray |
ISBN | 1559708204 |
This tightly argued, hugely controversial work convincingly demonstrates how the world's three major monotheistic religions-Christianity, Judaism, and Islam-have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, often condemning nonbelievers to death. If Nietzsche proclaimed...
Author | Stefania Auci |
ISBN | 0062931679 |
A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious family, the Florios, from their humble origins as impoverished shopkeepers to becoming the uncrowned kings of Sicily.
Vincenzo, who lost his father at eight, builds an empire...
Author | Nadia Terranova |
ISBN | 8806237454 |
Ida è appena sbarcata a Messina, la sua città natale: la madre l'ha richiamata in vista della ristrutturazione dell'appartamento di famiglia, che vuole mettere in vendita. Circondata di nuovo dagli oggetti di sempre, di fronte ai quali deve scegliere cosa tenere e cosa buttare, è costretta a fare...
Author | Claudia Durastanti |
ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
Author | Daniel Pennac |
ISBN | 2266086421 |
They were born worlds apart, the wolf from the Far North and the boy from Yellow Africa. Now all that separates them is a cage at the zoo. The wolf has lost much on his journey, including an eye and his beloved pack. But when he finally consents to trust the strange, still little boy who has been watching him...